Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary StyleRoger Fowler |
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... variety within a society results in formal variety within its language , and the variety is of a sort which cannot be ade- quately recognized by a two - class categorization of texts . As Professor Quirk puts it ( The Use of English ...
... variety within a society results in formal variety within its language , and the variety is of a sort which cannot be ade- quately recognized by a two - class categorization of texts . As Professor Quirk puts it ( The Use of English ...
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... variety of English ; if it is common to a number of low - generality varieties , or unique to a variety of higher generality , it is to that extent less deviant . The least deviant , or ' most normal ' feature of all will be that which ...
... variety of English ; if it is common to a number of low - generality varieties , or unique to a variety of higher generality , it is to that extent less deviant . The least deviant , or ' most normal ' feature of all will be that which ...
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... variety of English at a given degree of institutional delicacy , and that this analysis has revealed two occurrences of the pronoun thou against 10,000 occurrences of the pronoun you in comparable conditions , the item thou will be ...
... variety of English at a given degree of institutional delicacy , and that this analysis has revealed two occurrences of the pronoun thou against 10,000 occurrences of the pronoun you in comparable conditions , the item thou will be ...
Contents
THE NEW CRITICISM AND THE LAN | 29 |
BY ALGEBRA TO AUGUSTANISM | 53 |
TAKING A POEM TO PIECES | 68 |
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